Tesla buying experience is way better but the ETAs are famously off. Mine has been pushed back 4-5 times and always about 3-4 weeks before it's due to get delivered, so it's impossible to plan around.
Yeah, the ETA wasn't incredibly important to me for planning purposes. It was just nice to know that I was getting <exactly this car> in <roughly this timeframe>. As opposed to "keep calling and maybe we'll have a Hyundai Ioniq allocated to us that'll arrive a month or two after, oh an enjoy your $10k 'market rate adjustment' to the MSRP."
Fwiw my car was delivered in the middle half of the original ETA, but I know that others have had lots of issues with their ETAs.
You can order a new car, configured as you like, with almost any brand. You'll get an ETA and a tracker that shows when it's going into production, when it's leaving the factory, when it's on a ship/boat/truck to your dealer, and when it's ready for pickup. You can get most dealers to agree in writing not to add any markups if you reserve a car with their dealership as the delivery point. That's how most people are buying EVs of any make right now, not just with Tesla.
You technically can sometimes, but in my experience it's really difficult to actually do that. Dealerships get limited custom order bank allocations, and if you're not really early when the MY order bank opens your order will potentially slip a model year or even more (at least for in-demand models).
For Hyundai specifically I was looking for the Limited trim, and I've been told they're only allocating custom orders to dealerships with level 3 chargers. And even then the order bank for MY 2022 had already been closed when I started shopping around. I would have had to wait for the MY 2023 bank to open.
I've done it twice with VW for ID4s. There's no special time period to order, and you don't need to talk to a dealership first, you can order from the VW website any time. If your car doesn't go into production until after a model year rolls over, then you get that newer model year.
Also, the strange thing is it is off in both directions. I had a family member order a Model X with a 5 month delivery timeline. He was super surprised to get the call to arrange delivery 3 weeks later.
We had a preemie baby at 26 weeks in December and feel fortunate our hospital (UCSF) practiced this recommendation. I was surprised they could do kangaroo care that fast (was a few hours after birth), but we did it then and everyday our daughter was in the ICN for 4 months. I'm convinced it made a difference and am sad when I hear about parents who can't do this.
I hope this research helps this become more standard practice.
Well done. This would be extremely useful in one of the mobile muni apps. I look at Transporter in the morning to know when to leave for the N, but if it had an indicator of delays, I'd know that it's time to walk/bike/uber instead.
Actually, they're the same thing: both are computed as (number of shares outstanding) * (price per share).
The difference is that market cap is used for companies that have IPO'd (and therefore have a broad market for their shares with continuous price adjustments) versus companies that have raised money through private markets (and therefore have infrequent price adjustments).
One can reasonably argue that valuations are less precise than market caps as a result, but both are dictated by sophisticated investors and should be more or less correct on average.
(In fact, valuations are less precise, but this has a lot more to do with the amount of uncertainty inherent in any early-stage company than it does with the availability of shares on a public market; Wall St. has its ups and downs just like Silicon Valley.)
Actually, they're the same thing: both are computed as (number of shares outstanding) (price per share).*
No, they are not the same thing. They are calculated the same way, but Market in the phrase Market Cap means "public (share) markets".
market cap is used for companies that have IPO'd [(] and therefore have a broad market for their shares with continuous price adjustments
A pretty important distinction! If a share is "valued" at a price but there are no buyers then the valuation isn't shared by many others.
To be clear: I understand that the math is the same, but a market cap shows the consensus view of the market, while a funding valuation only shows the value a small set of investors put on a company.
With a technical + business background like that, I agree that product management might be a great fit, assuming you're interesting in getting away from code and focusing more on project management, specs, design, etc.
I'd also say you sound pretty ideal as a co-founder for a general web or mobile product. That's a position where a wide range of skills are useful and I'm sure there's lots of people out here who would love to talk to you.
Yea, definitely looking into product management. I would like to be a co-founder one day but before that I'd like to start with a solid foundation. For now I'm happy to help someone else build and realize their vision.
Most enterprise apps have an SLA of at least 99.9%. If the government was an email server for example, for the month of October they'd like have to give a partial refund to their customers for the downtime.
